Linux toolchain components - suggestions?

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Posted by Sonos: Fri. Sep 16, 2005 - 02:19 PM
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Hi,

I was just wondering. Anyone have a preference for certain combinations of binutils, gcc, avrlibc that is different from the most current packages? If so, why?

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Posted by dl8dtl: Fri. Sep 16, 2005 - 04:20 PM
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Well, don't use GCC 4.0.1, it's got some serious bugs and optimization
regressions for the AVR target. If you'd like to test a GCC 4.x
version, use the latest snapshot.

binutils-2.16 is fine, the stable GCC version is 3.4.4.

avr-libc 1.4.0 is about to be released within probably one week (most
likely together with 1.2.6 that will be a bugfix-only upgrade to
1.2.5).

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Posted by Sonos: Sun. Sep 25, 2005 - 06:10 PM
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any preference for simply using the core gcc?

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Posted by dl8dtl: Sun. Sep 25, 2005 - 08:12 PM
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Sorry, what do you mean by that?

If you're referring to just their "core" distfile, yes, sure.
There's no need to download everything, kitchensink
included. I usually only use the "core" and "c++"
distfiles, as C++ is a possible option for the AVR. But
if you don't need C++, you don't even need to download
that.

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Posted by Sonos: Mon. Sep 26, 2005 - 02:25 PM
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I started AVR programming on CodeVisionAVR and am now using gcc, so I'm a little confused as to when C++ would be used to program the AVR.

BTW, Jörg, your tutorial on the avr libc website is fantastic - thanks. I know it took a lot of your time to do that for gcc newbies.

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